Luxembourg Rail Protocol presented in Jakarta at Rail Working Group workshop

On 13 March 2019, Deputy Secretary-General Professor Anna Veneziano participated remotely in a special workshop co-organised by the Rail Working Group with the Ministry of Law and Human Rights in Jakarta entitled “The Future for Railway Finance: How the Luxembourg Rail Protocol will transform the Rail Sector in Indonesia and beyond”.

ELI-UNIDROIT PROJECT - ANNUAL JOINT STEERING COMMITTEE AND WORKING GROUP CO-REPORTERS MEETING HELD IN ROME

The final Annual Steering Committee meeting with the Co-reporters of all Working Groups was held in Rome on 25-26 February 2019. The meeting began by addressing the current status of the Consolidated Draft, presented by the Working Group on “Structure”, and explored the main issues and solutions envisaged for the finalisation of the Consolidated Text.

UNIDROIT-FAO-IFAD Legal Guide on Contract Farming presented at Food for Law Conference at McGill University

On 20 February 2019, UNIDROIT Deputy Secretary-General Professor Anna Veneziano presented the Legal Guide on Contract Farming, its main features and key aspects of its implementation at the Food for Law Conference hosted by McGill University in Montreal and its Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP).

The instrument of accession to the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention has been deposited by Latvia with the Italian Government, Depositary of the Convention, on 8 February 2019 and the Convention will enter into force for Latvia on 1 August 2019.

UNIDROIT INVITED AT THE OPENING OF THE 2019 JUDICIAL YEAR IN MILANO

On 25 January 2019, Ms Marina Schneider, Senior Legal Officer and Treaty Depositary, UNIDROIT, delivered a presentation on the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects at a conference entitled “The international circulation of Artworks” organized by the International Relationship Committee (CRINT) of the Milano Bar Association at the occasion of the Opening of the 2019 Judicial Year of the Milano Court of Appeal.